(15466) Barlow Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 January 1999 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Nadine G. Barlow (b. 1958), a planetary geoscientist at Northern Arizona University, studies planetary surface feature geology. The crater designation system she established in her Catalog of Large Martian Impact Craters has been adopted as the international standard for Martian crater data analysis.Naming citation (20040928/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Barlow is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Barlow is 2.22 au from the Sun and 1.57 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 15466 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 AR23 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Rotation period | 2.61 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.67 |
| Orbital period | 4.07 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.55 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.19 – 2.91 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.141 |
| Inclination | 13.7° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.23 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Nadine
All asteroids named after someone called Nadine
Also discovered on 14 January 1999
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